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April 18, 2008
Announcing SocialDevCamp East: Exploring the Future Direction of Social Media and the Web
Dave Troy and Ann Bernard (who met while doing an episode of Pulver TV) are putting on SocialDevCamp East, a Barcamp-style event focused on the future direction of social media and the web which will be taking place on May 10th in Baltimore, MD.
The attendees will create the sessions, but suggested topics include: Where is the social web going? How will location-aware devices affect the social web? How will platforms and data portability play out?
They're interested in attracting thought leaders from all over, but primarily on the east coast -- hence SocialDevCamp East. And it looks like they're onto something big -- it looks like a SocialDevCamp is already in the works for Chicago.
Find SocialDevCamp on Facebook and also at the BarCamp Wiki.
SocialDevCamp East is taking in Baltimore at the University of Baltimore, 2 blocks from Baltimore's Penn Station, convenient to Amtrak, MARC, and light rail. The event starts at 8:30am on May 10th.
Tags: SocialDevCamp, facebook, Dave Troy, Social Media, Ann Benard, pulverTV, WhyGoSolo, twittervision, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on April 18, 2008 05:29 PM | Permalink
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Posted by: injection molding at June 15, 2009 01:44 AM
Glad to know The Wire is the new standard for judging Baltimore!!! As a 14 year resident living blocks from the UB location, I can let you know that Baltimore has a large, thriving tech and arts community recognized nationally and growing quickly. I'm only bummed out that I'll be out of town for the conference. This neighborhood does contain the BSO, Maryland College Institute of Art, Lyric Opera House, guess what???? a new Starbucks etc. The city maintains an earthy quirkiness and overall friendliness that's very much in the spirit of this event.
Posted by: Catherine Pancake at April 30, 2008 12:18 PM
Well, I've never seen The Wire. The east side of Baltimore, which is where this location borders on, is NOT like anywhere else. Its more like East Los Angeles, or NYC up north of Central Park. East Baltimore really is a war zone. If you don't believe me, I would challenge you to drive 6 blocks NE of this location. You'll find open air drug markets, streets of abandoned and decaying row houses, and bands of armed youths roaming the streets.
Like I said, I actually lived near there and had my house broken into three times, once while my family and I were in the house. I still have friends there and have visited them recently as I mentioned.
I'm sure they've tried to make things better. Just don't blow smoke up people's skirts about the safety and gentrification of the neighborhood you're talking about to push an agenda for a conference. And this is not fearmongering, I'm just telling folks what they are going to see if they go. While it MIGHT be OK during the day, you're going to be in real danger if you're out after dark. If you don't like that, well, thats just too bad. I didn't pick the location. Maybe they should have picked something closer to the harbor or out in Columbia.
Posted by: Frank Miller at April 24, 2008 11:28 AM
Frank -- hey, I watch The Wire too, but it's like anywhere. You can find trouble if you go looking for it, but anyone who lives here now will tell you that this is a perfectly normal neighborhood in a perfectly normal city, with a symphony hall and the opera house around the corner and immediately adjacent to two successful neighborhood renovations, one of which is a designated arts district.
Is Baltimore perfect? No; but this kind of fearmongering doesn't help, and it's not really a fair representation of where things are.
Go to any major east coast city and drop a pin in the map; there will be a bad neighborhood within a short distance of that pin. To suggest things are better or worse in Baltimore is not fair.
Posted by: Dave Troy at April 22, 2008 04:45 PM
I was there about a month ago, didn't seem to have changed much to me. Open air drug markets are still very close to UB.
Posted by: Frank Miller at April 19, 2008 12:24 PM
Frank, don't know if you have been in town lately, but things have undergone a continual transformation in Baltimore in the last 10 years. There are a ton of restaurants, movie theaters and cultural venues within walking distance. Come see what you're missing!
Posted by: Dave Troy at April 18, 2008 07:52 PM
As someone who used to live about 2 miles north of that location, I'm here to tell you, don't forget to bring a gun. Of, if you are in need of crack, you can always go about 4 blocks northeast...
Why in God's name did they pick this sorry location?
Posted by: Frank Miller at April 18, 2008 07:01 PM